urine

Truscott and Hurd of the Brigham Young University Splash Lab have spent the last few months analyzing the male urine stream, and with a bit of applied fluid dynamics — and a healthy dollop of high-speed camera footage — they think they’ve finally worked out how to pee without creating splashback. They’re so confident that they’re going to present their findings to the American Physical Society.

Years after the crazy idea was first mooted, researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK have finally created what he calls the “world’s first” urine-powered fuel cell. The fuel cell, powered by your own urine or someone else’s, currently generates enough power to enable texting, web browsing, or a brief phone call (or, presumably, if you’ve drunk a lot of water, a not-so-brief call).

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